12. attorney Paweł Knut 13. attorney Mikołaj Pietrzak 14. Jerzy Foerster, M.D. 15. commander Bożena Szubińska 16. Joanna Klara Żuchowska, M.D. 17. Kama Katarasińska-Pierzgalska 18. Agnieszka Aleksandra Sikora 19. Maria Książak 20. Aleksandra Chrzanowska 21. Katarzyna Wiśniewska; Ph.D. 22. Maria Niełaczna, Ph.D. 23. Janina de Michelis FINANCING OF THE NMPT The States Parties undertake to make available the necessary resources for the functioning of the national preventive mechanisms2. Expenditures on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture are covered from the state budget allocation received by the CHR. According to the Annual Report on the Activity-Based Expenditures of the State Budget and of the European Funds Budget, in 2020 the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights disbursed 2 773 996,39 PLN. The Polish state, despite the provisions of OPCAT and the Paris Principles3, from the very beginning of the performance of the tasks of the national preventive mechanism by the Commissioner has not been allocating sufficient resources for that purpose. The insufficient budget allocated to the operation of the Commissioner for Human Rights translates directly into the impossibility to fully exercise the mandate of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture. 2 Article 18(3) of OPCAT. 3 Adopted by the resolution of the UN General Assembly no. 48/134 of 23 December 1993. The Paris Principles are requirements to be met by human rights institutions. They were adopted by the UN in 1993. The main requirements to be met are independence and pluralism. 12